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Geologists believe that 15, 000 to 25, 000 years ago the Laurentide ice sheet pushed down from Canada across what are now the Great Lakes, and over much of the northern U. S. One of the ice sheet's lobes bulldozed down over two thirds of Taylor county, at its farthest extent covering a line from Westboro through Perkinstown to Lublin.
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Geologists believe that the twin mountains once formed one range.
Geologists believe that the area was the site of an ancient meteorite impact.
Geologists believe the last glacier to advance into this area stopped its advance at a line running through northern Hammel, just south of Lake Isadore, then retreated.
Geologists believe Kodachrome Basin State Park was once similar to Yellowstone National Park with hot springs and geysers, which eventually filled up with sediment and solidified.
Geologists believe the source of the springs is the Tule Lake and Klamath Lake basins, located north.
Geologists believe they have found evidence of this major earthquake in sites throughout Israel and Jordan.
) Geologists believe that the island emerged around 2000 BCE, soon after the sea level stopped rising, as the sand built up to form new barrier islands on the southern Florida coast.
Geologists believe that Vanua Levu is an amalgamation of several islands that melded through successive stages of uplift.
Geologists believe that Viti Levu has been submerged a number of times, and has been covered by lava and other volcanic materials.
Geologists believe that Glacier Bay existed during a minimum of four Glacial periods ending with the Little Ice Age, which has a 4, 000 years old record, as the latest period.
Geologists believe that it is a filled-in kettle formed from a receding glacier.
Geologists believe that it preserves the remains of an immense volcanic eruption that shook the region some 27 million years ago.
or 5000-3000 BC Geologists believe that tectonic activity created elevation changes which redirected the flow of Sutlej from the southeast to the southwest.
Geologists believe that Taum Sauk and its neighbors may be among the few areas in the US never to have been submerged in ancient seas.
Geologists believe that the Chattooga may have made one direction change during its life.
Geologists believe that the Beartooths were at one time at least in altitude, but subsequent erosion for tens of millions of years has reduced them to an average of for the higher peaks.
Geologists believe that the dam may be unstable and could collapse during a future strong earthquake.
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During mapping for the Wadi al Jubal Archaeological Project in Yemen, USGS Geologists Overstreet and Grolier mapped anthrosols of pre-Islamic age east of the Marib dam site ( 15 degrees 24 ’ N, 45 degrees 18 ’ E ).
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Geologists have found evidence that a major outbreak of Lake Agassiz, about 13, 000 years ago, drained north through the Mackenzie River into the Arctic Ocean.
Geologists say that the falls first appeared roughly 10, 000 years ago several miles downstream at the confluence of the glacial River Warren ( at present-day Ft. Snelling ).
Geologists assert that approximately 6, 000 years ago the lower Raritan provided the course of the mouth of the Hudson River.
It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe with over 9, 000 Fellows entitled to the postnominal FGS ( Fellow of the Geological Society ), over 2, 000 of whom are Chartered Geologists ( CGeol ).
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists ( or AAPG ) is one of the world's largest professional geological societies with over 31, 000 members as of 2007.
Geologists found that the rock was deposited in the area during the last ice age ( 18, 000 years ago ) by ice.
Geologists say that eruptive activity deposited a layer of volcanic rock some 6, 000 feet thick, creating a high and fertile plateau.
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Geologists chose the area because of a wide crater created approximately 1. 6 million years ago by a large meteorite.
Geologists found that it had been in a reactor before — two billion years ago.
Geologists estimate that for 3 million years, at least through all the years of the Pleistocene glacial age, the Colorado River worked to build its delta in the southern region of the Imperial Valley.
Geologists call this fault-scarp dammed body of shallow water Lake Teewinot and it persisted for around 5 million years.
Geologists who have studied upright fossils found in sedimentary rocks exposed in various outcrops for the last 30 years have described the upright fossil trees as being deeply rooted in place and typically rooted in recognizable paleosols.
Geologists estimate the island is at least 18 million years old, making it the oldest in the Pacific.
He became interested in natural science, and especially in chemical and medical studies, and in 1845 he was elected a member of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists at Yale – a body which four years later became the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Douglas Medal of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, he was also the first geoscientist to be awarded an Isaac Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship and the first scientist of any kind to hold this award for four full years.
Geologists have become increasingly interested with the rugged coastline around Easkey, as it holds fossil structures that date back for millions of years.
Geologists estimate the age of these rocks as 290 to 296 million years ; they were lifted and tilted into their present orientation between 35 and 80 million years ago, during the Laramide Orogeny.
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Geologists have shown that a very long time ago the Waikato river came through the Hinurea valley and filled the Hauraki Basin with pumice, mud, drift wood and gravel to a depth of over 1200 ft. You can still see evidence of sea beaches between Shelly Beach and Maukoro.
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Geologists also obtain data through stratigraphy, boreholes, core samples, and ice cores.
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Geologists believed prior to the mission that both of these formations were volcanic in origin ; however, samples returned from the lunar surface have since proven this hypothesis is incorrect.
Geologists feared, however, that samples obtained from the crater might have been contaminated by the Imbrium impact, thus preventing Apollo 16 from obtaining samples of pre-Imbrium material.
Geologists also study unlithified material, which typically comes from more recent deposits.
Geologists were also concerned that the St. Helens eruption was a sign that long-dormant Cascade volcanoes might become active once more, as in the period from 1800 to 1857 when a total of eight erupted.
Geologists have noted the chemical and geological content of these three mountains to be much different than that of the Cascade Range, simply because they are not volcanic in origin, while the entire Cascade Range is postulated to have formed from volcanic action.
The first such laminations were found in a rock called “ The Dells .” Geologists would say that the cross-stratification showed festoon geometry from transport in subaqueous ripples.
* Pick and Gavel Award from the Association of American State Geologists, 2007
The first such laminations were found in a rock called “ The Dells .” Geologists would say that the cross-stratification showed festoon geometry from transport in subaqueous ripples.
Geologists estimate that 18 inches of salt crust have been removed from the flats, and that the reduction of salt happens at a pace of one percent per year.
Geologists have determined that debris from several distinct landslides in the same area overlap, forming what is called the Cascades landslide complex.
Geologists have theorized that this is a rare case of a large natural syphon from a nearby mountain.
Geologists, energy researchers and many other scientists from the following countries are represented in ASPO: Australia, Austria, Denmark, China, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The Nimrod Glacier is a major glacier about 135 km ( 85 mi ) long, flowing from the polar plateau in a northerly direction through the Transantarctic Mountains between the Geologists and Miller Ranges, then northeasterly between the Churchill Mountains and Queen Elizabeth Range, and finally spilling into Shackleton Inlet and the Ross Ice Shelf between Capes Wilson and Lyttelton.
The Society of Economic Geologists ( SEG ) originated from a 1919 gathering of a group of Geological Society of America ( GSA ) members who were especially interested in economic geology.
In November 1926 Wegener presented his continental drift theory at a symposium of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in New York City, again earning rejection from everyone but the chairman.
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* Dennis Curry, geologist, President from 1963-5 of the Geologists ' Association, grandson of Henry Curry ( founder of Currys ), and Chairman of his family's electrical company from 1968 until July 1984, prior to the firm's takeover
Geologists have estimated that a much larger deposit exists deeper and possibly off shore from the peninsula in the 400-500 billion barrel range, however exploration drilling has not yet confirmed this theory.
* Oxburgh, E R. ( 1974 ) The plain man's guide to plate tectonics, The eleventh Geologists ' Association special lecture delivered 2 February 1973, Oxford: Geologists ' Association., Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Geologists ' Association, 85 ( 3 )
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